Talk "How to procrastinate procrastination" during the DevFest Pescara - November 2019

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How to procrastinate
procrastination
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Giovanna Galleno
Community Specialist - DevRelations
Supporting Google

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Brain behaviour
Reactive brain
Thinking brain
“fight-or-flight mechanism
Allows to reflect and take decisions

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Procrastination
is a bad habit
that you can
eliminate.

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Why are you procrastinating?
● Overwhelmed by a task
● Not organized
● Perfectionist

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Overwhelmed by a task
Breaking up large tasks into smaller pieces
is a powerful way of working on big projects.

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“You don’t have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Not organized
Organize your activities by priorities
“Time management matrix”

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Time
management
matrix
by Stephen Covey

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Perfectionist
Set goals within your locus of control.

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Reward yourself after completing a difficult task.

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Recap
● Prioritize.
● Track your time.
● Reward yourself.
● Work on your habits.
● Make it easy enough.
● Manage your energy not your time.

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“The challenge is not to manage time, but to
manage ourselves.”
Stephen Covey

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Giovanna Galleno
Community Specialist - DevRelations
Supporting Google
Thank you!
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